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Firefox Faces Trademark Issues

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the all-in-a-name dept.

daria42 writes "The Debian development community is currently hotly debating whether the Mozilla Foundation's strict trademarks policy violates Debian's social contract. However, in a twist, it appears Mozilla has not received approval for the Firefox trademarks yet, and the Firefox name may already be taken in the UK and Germany. The foundation has not applied for the Thunderbird trademark anywhere yet."

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  1. Sigh... by Deliveranc3 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    This is pathetic... Firefox changed it's name from Firebird because of trademark crappalazoo!

    But they forgot to trademark firefox? Whoooopppps!

    It's interesting because the Debian trademark and the firefox trademark are actually WORTH something now, it pays to distribute software with those names!

    It appears one of the flaws of open source has been exposed.